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Glassnode put Bitcoin's largest cluster of leveraged short liquidations near $90,000 on Oct. 4, about 5% above a trading range of $85,000 to $86,000. Before forced short covering joins in, ordinary buyers have to carry the price across a $4,000 to $5,000 gap.
Bitcoin sat at $85,276 on Sunday, below the $86,000 area it hit before payrolls, even as Glassnode put October Fed hike odds at 22% from 66%. This week's fund-flow data will show whether ETF buyers are taking over from the short covering that lifted it.
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Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
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Bitcoin came within $650 of its $87,177 Friday high on Sunday while weekly US spot ETF inflows fell to about $83 million from $2.39 billion. October's seasonal record now has to carry a rally that fund money is backing at a fraction of September's pace.
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Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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El Salvador drew $138 million from its $1.4 billion IMF loan after the Fund waived missed Bitcoin targets and kept state purchases barred. From here the reserve grows only through documented donations, so its dollar value now depends mostly on the Bitcoin price.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Coin Metrics has recomputed all daily and hourly Ethereum exchange-flow metrics from the first block, using the exchange wallets it knows today. Outflow backtests run on a fresh download can now count wallets nobody had identified on the trade date.
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SEC approval of Cboe BZX rules on Oct. 2 opens a listing path for Volatility Shares funds that aim to triple daily Bitcoin and Ether futures returns. Shares cannot trade until a separate S-1 registration takes effect, and that step decides when brokers can offer them.
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Strategy spent $151.7 million buying back STRC preferred stock and $142.7 million on 1,665 Bitcoin in the week covered by its Sept. 28 filing. Its $18.84 billion of unsold common stock can fund more of both, though Michael Saylor's Oct. 4 post confirms no new purchase.
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Tether-backed Utexo plans to issue USDT on Bitcoin and police the nearly $190 billion stablecoin there with a coin blacklist in place of address freezes. Utexo cannot freeze those coins, so a block holds only where exchanges and bridges check the list.
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Absa, Africa's first bank to offer Bitcoin custody, says Bitcoin is most of what its institutional platform holds. The book draws on South Africa's stock of crypto assets, a small fraction of the value that moves through the country in a year.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Crypto job listings on CryptoJobsList more than tripled to 1,241 from July to September as applications fell below 20,000, about 16 per opening. Most of the squeeze comes from employers posting more roles, and higher pay for finance and trading hires remains an inference.
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Michael Saylor explained on September 29 that Strategy pays preferred dividends from a dedicated USD Reserve because its Bitcoin produces no cash. STRC's yield therefore depends on Strategy's continued ability to sell new shares.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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BlackRock's IBIT took in $195.6 million on a day all US spot Bitcoin ETFs together netted $102.7 million, so the other funds sold a net $92.9 million. Over 30 days its $1.57 billion is just over half the category's $2.99 billion, so its rivals are still gathering money.
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Fed policymakers raised rates 12-0 to 3.75%-4% on Sept. 16, and 16 of 18 projected at least one more quarter-point hike this year. Long yields have since risen more than the hike itself, so borrowers have more reason to plan around that projection than around President Trump's complaint.
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Bitcoin rose to $86,757 after August core PCE came in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected and October hold odds jumped to 74% from 35.8%. The year's sub-$1 billion ETF total understates the buying, because a strong third quarter first had to cover first-half redemptions.
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